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THOMAS n DE FORST, '0F B1.RIMINGH-AM,l coNNEcTicUT. Leffmpam No. 61,110,am@ Jam@ 15, '1867.

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TO ALL- WHOM I'I MAY CONCER N: v

Be it'known that I, '.l; B. DE FOREST, of Birmingham, in vthe county ofNew Haven, and State of- Con nectiout, have invented a new ImprovementinvHoop-Skirts; and I do herebyv declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying' drawings, and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to' be a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, and which*I said drawings constitutepart of this spec'iiication, and represent in` f Figure 1, a front viewof a portion of the lowerhoops; and in .Figures 2 and 3, enlargedtransverse sections of the-lower hoop., l

This invention relates to e. protection for the lower hoop, to preventthe covering frombeing .worn by dragging, and consists in enclosing acord upon the lower edge-of the bottonrhoop, which said cord preventsthe wire `from coming in immediate Acontact with the oor or pavement,thereby hindering any itrmediate wear upon'the same. A A

To enable others to construct and usel my improvement, I will proceed todescribe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Themanner in which I prefer vto attach the cord isseen in hg; 2, and isdone' in what is known as the vfigure 8 braider'.. The wire, which isdenoted in' solid blask, andl the cord, which isV denoted in blue, areboth inserted in the machine, one in each of the two circ1es,.andthecovering thread, which is denoted in red, is passed around and betweenboth the cord and wire, as denoted in g. 2. This covers and securesthecord directly to the edge of the'wire, and thus covered, the wire isformed into a hoop, and

attached to the skirt, the corded edge down,as seen in tig. 1, 'so thatthat edge receives all the wear consequent,

upon the dragging of the lower hoop; and being of a soft ortexihlenature, does -notwear away, as doesthe hard surface of a common hoop.Another manner of cording the hoop is shown in iig. 3. The' wire isfirst covered in the ordinary manner, or not; then, with the cord, ispassed through a tuhe -or casing of woven matelrial, and the tubestitched between the cord and the wire, as -denotedat a.. This,nofdoubt, is. the better plan, but the rst is cheaper. l

i l Iam aware that 4a. cord has been enclosed within rthecoveri'ng'o'frthe wire, as found in the Patent of Thomas S. Gilbert,June'20, 1865; but his invention .places the cordupon the dat side ofthe wire. "My invention` requires that l the cord should 'he upon' theedge. This cannot he when the cord is enclosed Within the same coveringas the wire,i`or it could not be held upon the edge, and could in nowiseaccomplish the result attained by my invention. I do net thereforehr'oad'ly'claim enclosing a cord uponthe wire and within the samecovoring; but having thus fully describediny,invention, what'I doclaimas new and-useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I Y IAttaching a cord to shirt wire, outside the covering which encloses thewire, substantially as herein set forth.

' THos. B. DE FOREST:

Witnesses:

-JonN H. SHUMWAY,

A.. J. Tissus.

